A team of knights ran across the avenue east of Dengzhou and entered the civil department of Dengzhou Town on the east side of Jingying, after Liu Minyou and Zhou Laifu got off the horse, Liu Minyou said to Xu Yuanhua who came to greet him: "Does the bandit in Qingzhou Mansion have a big impact on the trade route?" ”

Xu Yuanhua accompanied Liu Minyou and said while walking, "The place where the bandits are in the northwest of Qingzhou Mansion City, I heard that it is called a land tiger, and the merchants from Jinan Mansion have changed their waterways. But in the end, many people were taken on the road, and there were fewer merchants. ”

"Tigers? How does this name look like where have you heard it? Liu Min scratched his head, but he received so much information every day that he couldn't remember where he had heard of the tiger.

Liu Minyou hurriedly walked to the east gate of the military camp in Dengzhou Town, and took his waist card to Xu Yuanhua and Zhou Laifu to register, these two people did not have Chen Xin's authorization, and they could not enter the barracks without permission. Liu Minyou finished registering and took him to the General Soldier's Mansion. It stands to reason that this should be where Chen Xin lives, and it is actually the command center of Dengzhou Town. The chamberlain's office, the military order department, the military affairs department, the military justice department, and the quartermaster department are all here, and Chen Xin's residence is outside the barracks, which he said is better for his family.

The officers came and went in the General Military Mansion, Liu Minyou went to the No. 2 small conference room of the Military Command Division, Wang Changfu and Zhou Shifa were already waiting inside, and Zheng Sanhu, who rushed over, his third battalion was stationed in Pingdu Prefecture, bordering Qingzhou Mansion.

Liu Minyou sat down and said: "Let's talk about this, Qingzhou bandits have cut off the trade route from Jinan, what can we do?" ”

Zheng Sanhu also said helplessly: "The army can't go, it's not the jurisdiction of the governor of Denglai, and if the military department doesn't come to pay it, we can't go." ”

Zhou Laifu thought about it and said to the two: "It's okay in the short term, but it will always delay the sales of Qingzhou and Jinan for a long time, and now I'm most worried." If the bandits are still spreading, the road to Yizhou may be cut off in the future. ”

Wang Changfu frowned and said: "But now the battalion soldiers really can't go, not only the Qingzhou prefect can't come to ask for help, but even Xiong Mingyu can't transfer us to Shandong, that place is not under his control." Last time, I transferred a test company to Qingzhou Mansion, and after changing my disguise, I attacked three small bandits, but now there are thousands of people in that unit, and there are quite a lot of bandits in it, and the stations are divided into three or five places. The precautions are also very strict, and now that there are fewer soldiers, it will not be possible, and it will not be possible if there are more, and the Qingzhou government will definitely pay attention to it. ”

A group of military attachés called Jiliao Governor by name here, and no one felt inappropriate. Because Chen Xin and Liu Minyou usually do this way, everyone is used to it.

Liu Minyou also knew that the army could not succeed in a big move, and it was a big crime for the army to enter the territory without an order. Chen Xin always wanted to help the tigers, but he didn't dare to blatantly transfer troops, so he still took advantage of the time to suppress the bandits.

He turned his head to look at Zhou Shifa, "Zhou Shifa, there are a lot of people in your intelligence bureau. Can you go and clean up the bandits? ”

Zhou Shifa hurriedly waved his hand, he knew Chen Xin's plan well, only a few people knew about it, and he was one of them. How could he agree to send someone to clean up the tiger, he said: "My lord, we can't do anything now, the bandits are mainly in the west of the capital of Qingzhou Mansion. There are thousands of people, and there are only a few dozen people from the Intelligence Bureau in Qingzhou. Not enough to deal with them. ”

Liu Minyou was dissatisfied: "The intelligence bureau has an annual fund of two or three hundred thousand taels, and Qingzhou is at the gate of Denglai, so you can't prevaricate me?" ”

Zhou Shifa bowed his head, in fact, the Intelligence Bureau only takes 100,000 taels from the Finance Department every year, and the rest are subsidies from Chen Xin's small treasury, and there are also seizures in the execution of tasks, which have exceeded 300,000 taels this year. Of course, he won't sue Liu Minyou, he has known Liu Minyou for a long time, and he knows that this person has no bad intentions, but he also knows very well that Liu Minyou has a relationship with Chen Xin, even if Liu Minyou has a blunt attitude, he will never dare to offend Liu Minyou. Zhou Shifa rolled his eyes and thought for a long time, and finally said: "Lord Liu, my subordinates have proposed a compromise method, we will contact a dart bureau in Jinan, if there is a merchant in the west of Qingzhou Mansion, the Department of Industry and Commerce will contact it, and they will escort the dart." ”

"Dart game?" Liu Minyou turned his head to look at Zhou Laifu, the two of them knew that this matter was done by Chen Xin to the Intelligence Bureau, which was used to cover the personnel of the action team, and they usually don't dart, but now they are under the jurisdiction of Wu Jianzhong of the field service team, and the director of the local trading company can be mobilized to deal with business opponents, so Liu Minyou and Zhou Laifu both know. The people in the army didn't know, so Zhou Shifa only said to contact the dart bureau.

Zhou Laifu nodded lightly, making Wang Changfu and Zheng Sanhu confused, they didn't understand which dart game was so powerful, and even thousands of bandits had to give face.

"Can you guarantee it?"

Zhou Shifa assured: "The dart bureau has clashed with the bandits in the mountains several times, and they all won, and then the bandits did not dare to intercept this dart, we happen to have some business with the dart board, and we can ensure that it is safe." ”

Liu Minyou only thought that Chen Xin had beaten those bandits, but he still didn't expect that the bandits were also Wu Jianzhong's subordinates, so he clapped his hands and said: "Well, the trading company and the industrial and commercial department will contact the old customers of Jinan Mansion and tell them the name of the dart bureau, and the dart fee should not be expensive." ”

Several people wrote it down, Wang Changfu looked left and right, and said to Liu Minyou: "Lord Liu, Lord Chen said before leaving, you agree to complete another battalion in the second half of the year, and now the Military Affairs Department has been on the agenda, and the first and second battalions are left without full formation, and the second battalion is now Lushun, and Li Donghua of the Military Affairs Department said that the first battalion should be expanded, and his subordinates feel that the mountain soldiers should be expanded first, and it will be easy to deal with these mountain bandits in the future, and there are many mountainous areas in southern Liaoning. ”

Did Liu Min ignore Wang Changfu, now the slender man and Yanggu factions are distinct, Chen Xin is cultivating the Liaomin and Shandong factions, and at the same time, through guò martial arts to promote the newborn middle-level officers, dilute the regional color, but at the highest level, it is still the slender man and Yanggu the most, and there are many things that they don't like each other.

Xu Yuanhua was also from Yanggu, and he had no say in this matter, but he knew what Wang Changfu meant, so he turned his head to the side and spit out a mouthful of tea residue, and Wang Changfu and Zheng Sanhu ignored him.

Liu Minyou didn't want to get involved in this matter, so he closed his booklet and stood up and said: "I don't care about this matter, go and ask Lord Chen, Tangma is six hundred miles urgent, but it can go back and forth in five or six days, he said that the expansion of that group of people and horses will expand that group of people, Wang Changfu, don't worry about it, take care of your guard battalion." ”

After Liu Minyou finished speaking, he led Zhou Laifu and the two out, and after returning to the civil department, the three of them went to Liu Minyou's official room. Liu Min sat down on his long recliner tiredly, and said to Zhou Laifu: "Laifu, you said the day before yesterday that the cotton spinning was incorporated into the trading company, I also have to discuss with Lord Chen, my own meaning, there is no need for this in the short term, the four seas trading company is a channel to all parts of the country, the initial market of cotton cloth is in Denglaiqing and Jinan, and it will be expanded to Shandong and Beidi later, if it is really necessary." It is also possible to include it at that time. ”

Zhou Laifu said in a low voice: "My subordinates listen to adults." ”

"But you can rest assured that all sales can be outsourced to trading companies, and the difference in profits for trading companies is not huge." Liu Minyou paused after saying goodbye to Zhou Laifu. The real thoughts in his heart also came from last year's Linqing tobacco dispute. After the collapse of the Dongyue Tobacco Factory, some people in the trading company said that there was no need to develop new varieties, and that they could only suppress the tobacco industry in various places. He was worried that the merchant society would become too dependent on violence to create a monopoly and not pay attention to the development of technology, so he still planned to control the manufacturing industry himself.

Xu Yuanhua was a little uncomfortable, he was the director of the Department of Industry and Commerce, but there was a giant in the Dengzhou department. The main profits came from trading companies, and the Department of Industry and Commerce only had jurisdiction over the workshops, and although they later seized the jurisdiction and taxing power of the gold mines, they could not be compared with the trading companies. This caused his position to be somewhat awkward, and he was not considered a strong department among the civil affairs departments. Now listening to Liu Minyou's words, it is obvious that Zhou Laifu is grabbing land again, but fortunately Liu Min did not agree.

Liu Minyou opened his booklet. said to Zhou Laifu and Xu Yuanhua: "I have drawn up a plan here, Laifu and Yuanhua, you can help you refer to it." There are two factories, namely Dengzhou and Lingshanwei, which are located next to the private port on the west side of Dengzhou Water City, and the Lingshanwei factory is located next to the Acropolis, where the conditions of the private port are better, and it is also the road that the boats often take, and it is very convenient to come and go. ”

Zhou Laifu thought for a moment and said: "Lingshanwei's private port is very good, the land route is only separated by a wall from Qingzhou Mansion, and the sea route to Haizhou in Nanzhili is only a day or two sea journey, and it is very close to go from Haizhou to Gunzhou Mansion. ”

Xu Yuanhua added: "There are also many cotton growers in the south of Qingzhou Mansion, and Lingshanwei is so close to Qingzhou Mansion that it is very cheap to recruit people. ”

Liu Minyou said with a smile: "Then Lingshanwei will be decided first, you haven't said Dengzhou, do you think Dengzhou is inappropriate here?" ”

Zhou Laifu has followed Liu Min for a long time, and when he was in Tianjin, he used to dry clothes together, and he did not shy away from saying: "My subordinates do think that Dengzhou is inappropriate, although there is a port here, but Dengzhou is far away by sea and land, and there are no big rivers in Dengzhou, so hydraulic textiles must be restricted." ”

Xu Yuanhua also added: "The other is that Dengzhou does not produce grain, and most of the color supplied by the imperial court must be supplied to the Lushun and Dengzhou garrisons. ”

Zhou Laifu sighed, "This ship is really insufficient, this year it took over the color transportation of Dongjiang Town, and there was almost no profit in the middle, but Lord Chen had to let it take over, and now the No. 2 Fu ship has added three more, and the bird boat and Kailang have been added by nearly twenty, which is still not enough, if it is really a textile factory in Dengzhou, this transportation is a big problem." ”

The color of the Dongjiang River is what Chen Xin must take, it turns out that the drift of the Dongjiang River is calculated as 30%, and the Dengzhou sailors have a lot of money, and they can also engage in some smuggling. Now Chen Xin has united with Lu Zhi and Wang Tingqian to establish a trade monopoly in Liaohai and distribute dividends to the upper echelons of the sailors. Lu Zhi also investigated strictly, and also cut down a water battalion officer who was privately entrained. Chen Xin offered Lu Zhi a price, and the water camp didn't have to do anything, he returned to Lu Zhi Yicheng directly, and also gave the water camp officer Yicheng, and the color transportation became a chicken rib for the water camp, and finally handed it over to the trading company to do.

Chen Xin still floated thirty percent, except for the two percent given, he could only barely keep it, and the number of ships had increased a lot, but Zhou Laifu didn't think it could be done.

Liu Minyou knows what Chen Xin is going to do, he is laid out in Liaodong, Dongjiang Town is very important, he can control Dongjiang Town when he receives it, and he can also help him if necessary, and making money is secondary.

Turning back to the textile mill, he asked, "What do you think is more appropriate?" ”

"Changyi." Xu Yuanhua preemptively said, "This place is very close to Qingzhou Mansion, there are two big rivers, you can divert water along the river channel as a canal, for those waterwheels, after the waterwheel is used, it can also irrigate the fields of Tunpu, and now all Tunpu in Pingdu is also interplanting cotton, and after harvesting, take the waterway to Changyi, which is also cheap." ”

Liu Min looked at Zhou Laifu, and Zhou Laifu also nodded, "It is more convenient to get from Changyi to land and water, and the flat-bottomed boat can load goods in the river and go to sea downstream." ”

"Then here, I will immediately send an order to the Tun Division, let them transfer labor, Xu Yuanhua, you are in charge of the affairs of the factory, especially pay attention to the manpower spinning workshop, this matter has very high requirements for finger flexibility, ask those tun households, see how to ensure that the workshop can not be, it really can't work, just make a large nest, in short, it will be completed before the end of September, and there is the workshop, immediately increase the number of carpenters, we have a lot of things to do."

Before Liu Minyou finished speaking, Wu Youdao's voice sounded outside, and Liu Minyou had to stop and let him in.

Wu Youdao secretly glanced at Zhou Laifu and the others, and wanted to come over to talk to Liu Minyou, but Liu Minyou couldn't see him the most, and said impatiently: "What is the matter?" ”

"Lord Liu, you can't say it out loud, someone from the Military Command Department is here."

Liu Minyou had no choice but to stand up and take Wu Youdao to the compartment inside.

"Say it."

Wu Youdao lowered his voice, "The news that has just come from southern Liaoning is that Jiannu is hoarding grain and grass from Gaizhou to Fuzhou, and Zhu Guobin and Liu Pojun both think that they may want to attack Lushun. ”

"Hit Lushun!" Liu Minyou glared at Wu Youdao, "Then what are they looking for me for, why don't you go and inform Lord Chen quickly." ”

"Tangma has already gone, they ask the adults to transport more grain, grass and armaments, and in addition, they want to transfer the actual company of combat sappers over, and the transfer of the battalion across the defense area needs your signature."

"Oh, then I'll sign it." Liu Minyou took the book, signed it with a brush, and said to Wu Youdao, "I also want to write a letter to Lord Chen, you will take it to the Military Command Department later, and ask them to find Tangma to send it." If Jiannu really comes to fight, it will definitely be extraordinary, and he still has to ask Lord Chen to come back and take charge. ”

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